SPEC SFS® 2014

The SPEC SFS® 2014 benchmark
is the latest version of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation
benchmark suite measuring file server throughput and response time,
providing a standardized method for comparing performance across different
vendor platforms. The suite is the successor to the SFS® 2008
benchmark, but has been completely rewritten to shift focus from
measuring performance at the component level to measuring an end-to-end
storage solution for specific applications.

New Features:

The migration from a component-level benchmark to a complete solution
benchmark that measures performance of the entire storage configuration
as it interacts with application-based workloads.

An upgrade from one general-purpose workload to four different
workloads representing specific application areas. Workloads now
measure the number of simultaneous builds that can be done, the
number of video streams that can be captured, the number of simultaneous
databases that can be sustained, and the number of virtual desktops
that can be maintained.

Protocol independence, enabling the benchmark to run over any
version of NFS or SMB/CIFS and on any clustered, object-oriented,
local or other POSIX-compatible file system.

A new methodology that permits vendors to demonstrate their unique
storage accelerators.

A new facility that allows users to create their own customized
workloads for measuring storage system performance.

Dec. 20, 2017: The SPEC SFS® 2014 SP2 benchmark available:This update
includes a new workload for the electronic design automation (EDA) market, along with an increase in
load-generation scaling, reduced startup time, and enhancements to custom workload generation capabilities.
For further details on what's changed, see "What's new in SPEC SFS 2014 SP2?"
Existing licensees of earlier versions of the benchmark are eligible for a free upgrade. Starting
January 18, 2018, all result submissions must be made using SP2.

Nov. 19, 2015: The SPEC SFS® 2014 SP1 benchmark available: This update
fixes a possible sensitivity to systems that have inline compression enabled and
incorporates all errata fixes since the initial release.
As of October 20, 2015, all result submissions must be made with the SP1 version
of the benchmark.

Results

Includes all of the results submitted for publication to SPEC from
licensees of the benchmark. Note: these results are not comparable
to results from earlier versions of the SPEC SFS® benchmarks
(SFS® 2008, SFS® 97_R1,
SFS® 97, LADDIS), and the SFS2014_database,
SFS2014_eda, SFS2014_swbuild, SFS2014_vda, and SFS2014_vdi metrics are not comparable
to each other due to differences in the workloads.